But Thouin is not an employee of Elections Canada, rather an independent contractor. He's not listed as an employee on the federal government employee directory and he's filed returns as an independent government contractor for the past several years.
Are you connecting the dots yet? An independent contractor with a known history of dragging media into legal investigations -- to Conservative headquarters for sensational propaganda shots -- is now working for Elections Canada on an investigation into whether the Conservatives illegally robocalled Canadians.
In what other democracy would you throw an obviously partisan individual into the middle of an investigation that must remain neutral? And then allow him to bill Canadians over $33,000, no less?
Could Elections Canada really not handle its own investigation? It had to outsource one of the Commissioner's primary mandates to private firms who are anything but neutral?
Furthermore, how did Elections Canada a) decide on which contractors to hire; and b) how much those contractors would be paid, considering the robocalls investigation was not a foreseen Elections Canada expense?
And finally, why have the investigators all seemingly been given $78,444.35 contracts? That's an odd number, don't you think?